A Letter to the Towerlight:
Students have no right to steal from Susq.

Alison Perrego

16 March 2006

[Online Editors’ Note:  This letter was published in The Towerlight on 16 March 2006 (p. 7).  While the author might not be herself a libertarian, we felt this article may be of interest to libertarian student readers, and thus are including it here.]

Upon eating my usual lunch at the Susquehanna, I again noticed something that I find extremely disheartening.  On numerous occasions I have noticed students walking out of where we get our food and walking right over to a table and sitting down without paying.  I have seen this many times and each time I get angrier.

What gives these people the right to a free meal when everyone else has to pay?  I know that the Susquehanna is a busy place and these things can be overlooked, but I think that there needs to be a reform in employee alertness and student moral.  The food is not free to purchase or prepare and [Chartwells] employees work hard to provide us with warm meals daily.

Not only are stealing students hurting these workers, they are hurting other students who will ultimately have to pay for their free meals through future price increases.  My advice to these five-finger discount card holders:  Get a job or ask mom and dad for an extra $6.

Alison Perrego

Junior, nursing

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